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01/28/2015

Scientific news

Two-tier evolution within a single genome

Two different evolution mechanisms can co-exist within a single genome. This was shown for the first time by a collaboration between Gilles Fischer’s (IBPS) and Joseph Schacherer’s (Université de Strasbourg) teams. [...]

01/21/2015

Scientific news

Dopamine and Glutamate: criminal (addictive) conspiracy

Dopamine and glutamate receptors are able to physically interact and the resulting protein complexes appear to control some of the responses induced by administrations of drugs of abuse such as cocaine. This observation was recently published in Molecular Psychiatry1 by the team of Jocelyne Caboche and Peter Vanhoutte2. The authors thus show that this protein complex may constitute a therapeutic target to treat drug addiction. [...]

01/20/2015

Job offers

Team leader position in Quantitative Biology

The Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS) at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) is seeking to recruit an outstanding group leader to develop interdisciplinary approaches in the following fields: Synthetic biology or genome engineering, Heritability of complex traits and/or experimental evolution, Single cell functional genomics, Environmental genomics. [...]

01/19/2015

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Team leader position in Neuroscience

The Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS) at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) is seeking to recruit an outstanding group leader to develop interdisciplinary approaches in the following fields of neurobiology: Neural development, plasticity and regeneration, dynamics of neuronal networks and cognitive processes, cellular and molecular basis of neuroadaptation [...]

11/18/2014

Scientific news

Vulnerability of the neural circuitry underlying sexual behavior to chronic adult exposure to oral BPA in male mice

Adult male mice that regularly ingest bisphenol A, even at acceptable daily intake (ADI)1 (50µg/kg of corporal weight /day), display reduced sexual motivation and performance2. [...]

10/30/2014

Scientific news

New Scanning Electron Microscope

In 2015, the IBPS Electron Microscopy Facility will make the acquisition of a latest generation Scanning Electron Microscope. [...]

06/11/2014

Scientific news

Retreat in Dourdan

The IBPS group leaders and platform managers gathered on June 11 & 12, 2014 during a Seminar in Dourdan (91). [...]

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